The historical rank and industry rank for Stillwater Mining Co's Pretax Margin % or its related term are showing as below:
SWC's Pretax Margin % is not ranked *
in the Metals & Mining industry.
Industry Median: 0.64 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Pretax Margin % only.
Stillwater Mining Co Pretax Margin % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Stillwater Mining Co's Pretax Margin % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Stillwater Mining Co's Pretax Margin %
For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Stillwater Mining Co's Pretax Margin %, along with its competitors' market caps and Pretax Margin % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Stillwater Mining Co's Pretax Margin % Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry
For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Stillwater Mining Co's Pretax Margin % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Stillwater Mining Co's Pretax Margin % falls into.
Stillwater Mining Co Pretax Margin % Calculation
Pretax margin - also known as pretax profit margin is the ratio of Pretax Income divided by net sales or Revenue, usually presented in percent.
Stillwater Mining Co's Pretax Margin for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2016 is calculated as
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Stillwater Mining Co (NYSE:SWC) Pretax Margin % Explanation
The pretax margin, as know as pretax profit margin, is widely used to measure the operating efficiency of a company before deducting taxes.
The pretax margin is sometimes preferred over the net margin as tax expenditures can make profitability comparisons between companies misleading.
It is a useful tool to compare companies operating in the same sector and less effective when comparing companies from other sectors as each industry generally has different operating expenses and sales patterns.
The long term trend of the pretax margin is a good indicator of the competitiveness and health of the business.
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Stillwater Mining Co (Stillwater Mining Co) Business Description
Stillwater Mining Company is the only platinum-group metals miner in the United States, and one of the producers outside of South Africa and the Russian Federation. The company is engaged in the development, extraction, and processing of platinum-group metals from a geological formation in south-central Montana known as the J-M Reef. Platinum-group metals are rare precious metals used in a wide variety of applications, including automobile catalysts, fuel cells, hydrogen purification, electronics, jewellery, dentistry, medicine, and coinage. The company also recycles the metals from catalytic converters and other industrial sources. It has Mine production, PGM recycling, Canadian properties, South American properties and All other. Mine production segment engages in the development, extraction, processing and refining of PGMs. The PGM catalyst segment recycles spent catalyst material to recover PGM contained in the material. The Canadian properties segment consists primarily marathon mineral property assets. The exploration stage Marathon mineral properties include PGM and copper deposit located near town of Marathon and Ontario and properties adjacent to Marathon. The South American properties segment includes Peregrine metals Ltd assets. All other segment covers assets including investments, revenues, expenses of corporate and support functions.
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